骨 gǔ
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 骨 — bone
- Made of
- 冎 bone ⺼ meat, flesh
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
骨头
gǔtou
bone
Characters in this word
头 tóu
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 大 — big, great, vast, high, deep
- Made of
- ⺀ ice 大 big, great, vast, high, deep
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 狗吃骨头。 Gǒu chī gǔtou. The dog eats a bone.
- 骨头很硬。 Gǔtou hěn yìng. The bone is very hard.
- 我有骨头汤。 Wǒ yǒu gǔtou tāng. I have bone soup.